v2.1

Version 2.1 (21st December 2018)

Overview for 2.1

After a long hiatus without releases, this version simplifies the packaging of
Hamcrest into a single jar: hamcrest-<version>.jar. Other big changes include
Java 9 module compatibility, migrating the code repository from Google Code to
GitHub, along with numerous other new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Breaking Changes for 2.1

• The way that the project is packaged has changed. This may cause problems with
  correctly upgrading transitive dependencies. Refer to the
  Hamcrest Distributables
  documentation for more information, and in particular,
  Upgrading from Hamcrest 1.x
• org.hamcrest.Factory has been removed. This was only used in old implementations
  of the hamcrest build toolchain, and can safely be deleted from client code without
  any effect.

Changes for 2.1

• Documentation updates
• Several JavaDoc improvements and corrections
• Fix JavaDoc examples
• Upgraded to Java 7
• Build with Gradle
• Publish a single jar hamcrest-2.1.jar
• Publish pom-only artifacts for hamcrest-core and hamcrest-library.
• Add implementation for CharSequence length matcher
• Fix for TypeSafeDiagnosingMatcher can't detect generic types for subclass
• Make Hamcrest an OSGI bundle
• Add StringRegularExpression matcher
• Fix StringContainsInOrder to detect if a repeated pattern is missing
• Add ArrayAsIterableMatcher
• Fix description for IsEqualIgnoringCase
• Removed deprecated methods from previous release
• Improve mismatch description of hasItem/hasItems
• General improvements to mismatch descriptions
• Deprecated several matcher factory methods of the for "isXyz"
• Fix GH issue #​75 - address doclint errors reported in JDK 1.8
• Fix GH issue #​69 - Iterable contains in order is null-safe
• Fix GH issue #​59 - added equalToObject() (i.e. unchecked) method
• Fix GH issue #​25 - arrayContaining(null, null) cause NullPointerException
• Fix GH issue #​36 - string matching on regular expressions
• Fix GH issue #​8 - isCloseTo() shows wrong delta in mismatch description
• Fix GH issue #​59 - add untyped version of equalTo, named equalToObject
• Fix GC issue #​131 - Implement IsEmptyMap, IsMapWithSize
• Fix GC issue #​187 - IsArray.describeMismatchSafely() should use Matcher.describeMismatch
• Fix GC issue #​155 - Add Matcher implementation for files
• Fix GC issue #​69 - fix NPE in IsIterableContainingInOrder